Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2994.
-
Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
-
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
-
Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
-
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
-
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
-
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
-
Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
-
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
-
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence.
Notes on structured programming (1970) -
Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) -
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
-
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
-
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
-
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
-
Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
-
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
-
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
-
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
All never-ending famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 98)
